Hugershoff Cove
| Hugershoff Cove | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay ( Gerlache Street ) | |
| Land mass | Arctowski Peninsula , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 22 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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The Hugershoff Cove is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 3 km northwest of Beaupré Cove in Wilhelmina Bay . Its east bank is formed by the Poblete Peninsula .
It was first mapped during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the German geodesist Carl Reinhard Hugershoff (1882-1941), a pioneer of photogrammetry .
Web links
- Hugershoff Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hugershoff Cove on geographic.org (English)